The US manufacturer of the cladding panels on Grenfell Tower in London, where at least 80 people died in a fire last month, has said it stopped selling them for high-rise buildings because it cannot control how they are installed.

The revelations about Volkswagen’s emissions fraud, added to recent scandals at Siemens and Deutsche Bank, show a German corporate establishment that is out of step with a society that is actively trying to atone for 20th-century sins, writes Leonid Bershidsy

TIME was running out last night to pull nine trapped miners from a 240ft watery shaft after rescue efforts were delayed when a giant drill bit broke.

Rescuers in Pennsylvania were today trying to break through to nine coal miners trapped 240ft underground in a dark shaft which is rapidly filling up with millions of gallons of cold water.